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Forum (Germany) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1540-8884Verify ISSN ↗2194-6183Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 136 / 286 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 736 / 1530 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 2002, 2000), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Forum (Germany) is Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 136 of 286) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 736 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Forum (Germany) is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.427, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Forum (Germany) is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1540-8884 and its online ISSN is 2194-6183.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forum (Germany) has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Forum (Germany) published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 73. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (96.8%), Australia (1.1%) and Finland (1.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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